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Empire Decorating Ideas -Greystone estate in Beverly Hills

Jennifer for Peak of Chic has some wonderful pictures of the new opening of the Greystone estate in Beverly Hills, which she snapped during the opening of the Maison de Luxe Opening Night Gala Event.  Timothy Corrigan’s room stood out to be one of the most striking [...]

Empire Decorating: John Saladino's Period Style

Designer John Saladino is best known for his period style decorating, and love for antiques.  His passion for interesting antiques make his rooms feel interesting and rich than the typical designed room with modern accessories.    The lovely Brooke wrote up an interesting post detailing his home that was featured in the Santa Barbara Design Style Magazine.  As [...]

Arthur J. Pergament's Neoclassical Home And Empire Furniture

Neoclassical Interiors Interior Designer Scott Snyder From Architectural Digest Magazine

Some of the most beautiful pictures featuring Empire furnishings are from Interior Designer Scott Snyder. With over 30 years of interior design, his attention to detail is incredible.  You have to wonder how long an inlay (or stenciled?) floor would take such as the picture above.  [...]

Classic Greek Furniture - Klismos Chair

Evergreen Antiques was selling an American 20th Century Neoclassical style painted Klismos armchair that featured a wonderful original painted finish.  Evergreen’s Klismos chair featured an amazing hoop back raised on carved scrolled wing supports above a wooden seat.  The klismos chair is famous for its hoop back and sabre legs, and was originally created some time during the [...]

Empire Furniture

Empire Furniture has a very masculine look with a tremendous amount of details. Todays furniture does not often feature the exquisite exotic woods of the empire furniture. If you love the Greek and Roman decorating styles, empire furniture is right up your alley. With most modern furniture there is more to be desired than a [...]

Empire Furniture Make Overs

Finding great antique furniture can be costly and rare to find, so often times when a reproduction furniture piece comes along that I can fix up to look like the real thing, I turn to appliques to dress up the furniture. Hardware can make a *great* piece even more *spectacular*. Ormolus are gilt-metal decorations that [...]